The Pennsylvania House of Representatives Tuesday took the step of putting into place for a final vote in that chamber a linchpin revenue bill that has been seen as the largest log in the jam of the state’s most recent budget impasse.

Amid widespread speculation of an agreed-to revenue framework to conclude the FY 2017-2018 budget, lawmakers returned to Harrisburg Monday to work toward getting final, yet elusive, agreement on a consensus plan that would fund the $2.2 billion deficit attached to the current fiscal year’s budget.

With the House and Senate not planning to return to session until Monday, legislators made it clear that the October 1 deadline put out by Gov. Tom Wolf last Tuesday is going to be missed.

However, that is not going to stop progress seemed to be made later in the week toward reaching a compromise on a plan to balance Pennsylvania’s $31.99 billion budget and close out the existing deficit from the prior fiscal year.